UAE: Abu Dhabi launches $100-mln charity fund to tackle tropical diseases in Africa, Middle East

The UAE Wednesday announced the launch of Last Mile Fund, a new $100-million fund to combat neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) mainly River blindness and Tlymphatic filariasis, which affect millions of lives around the world, but in Africa and in the Read more

Malnutrition, cholera ‘a vicious combination’ in war-torn Yemen – UN agency chiefs

In Yemen, the world’s worst cholera outbreak is unfolding amid the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, crippling health, water and sanitation facilities in the country, and creating ideal conditions for diseases to spread, according to the heads of three United Nations Read more

Syria : 180,000 dead, France arms rebels

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has reported that the ongoing war in Syria which has forced around half of the country’s population to flee has claimed more than 180,000 lives. The three year old war started as an anti-government Read more